Are you more bitter now than you were 8 years ago?

[ColbertWatcher]

[yardwork]

1. I wasn't bitter at all eight years ago.

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. Neither was I. Thanks george, you horrid little man!

[Benhurst]

14. Are you older now than you were eight years ago?

[ColbertWatcher]

21. LOL! n/t

[Just-plain-Kathy]

15. Same here, and now I'm a cynic.

Before Bush and 9-11, if I found time to surf the internet, I would be glued to Christmas ornament collecting sites. ...I use to be so sweet and innocent, now I'm obsessed with a shadow government, hell bent in taking us for everything we got.

:tinfoilhat:

[yardwork]

22. Me too! I used to think that Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK.

Now I'm a full-fledged tin foil hatter.

[Warpy]

2. The word is disgusted

and since I went into disgust overdrive on Dec. 12, 2000, there has been no place else to go. I have maintained that level nicely, though.

[susanbanks44]

3. More bitterer

[Mojambo]

4. I'm off the charts.

And I wasn't exactly sunny to begin with.

[Vanje]

5. Totally bitter

Looky me! I'm all clinging to God and Gunz!

[4 t 4]

13. For those of you out there

that are less bitter please share with the rest of the class how that is ? I could use some help because I have never been this mad, or felt this bad about my future in my whole life.

[ColbertWatcher]

20. Hurr, hurr, you is a good 'Merkin!

[snappyturtle]

6. Bitter? I'm damn angry. I have never felt anger, along with fear, that

I do today. I just wasn't an angry or bitter person. I was looking forward to a great future. Even though my hubbie and I have been working harder and longer hours we live no where near to the life we did eight years ago. But, we have each other and our health, for which I am eternally grateful. Being on the poorside isn't terrible as long as I don't have to interact with my rich repuke family. When I do, I feel less of a person....

[ColbertWatcher]

8. You shouldn't feel that way! n/t

[snappyturtle]

27. I know I shouldn't but it's there none-the-less. They just don't have a clue. nt

[EFerrari]

9. Much less patient. Bitter, I don't think so.

Bitter is hard to keep going. It requires energy and even, foresight! :)

[TCJ70]

10. I'm not really bitter at all.

Never have been I think.

[peacetalksforall]

11. I was hopeful eight years ago. Now I cry or want to cry. I am losing my

country. Too many losses. A person can only endure so many losses... the children our country justice - there is a limit. No thanks, Republican and certain Dem leaders. You did us wrong.

[EFerrari]

16. I never cry when I watch or listen to these bastards, as if they could know

somehow. But, there is tearfulness at other strange times that must come back to this stuff.

[lpbk2713]

12. Most definitely. Those SOB's stole the election twice and ruined the country.

I won't be anywhere near happy until I see every one of those
corrupt and evil BushCo criminals prosecuted and imprisoned.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

17. There was a time

when I thought the outright theft of a presidential election was the height of hypocrisy. I was bitter at Bill Clinton for being a dickhead, bitter at Al Gore for his failure to challenge the skewed results of the election, but most of all bitter because a puppet was now in the White House.

Fast forward to today: I am bitter because my entire life has been subject to bullshit Reaganomics culminating in our current shitpool.

I suppose the one bright point is that I have next to nothing, so I've really got nothing to lose.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

18. Bitter? No. Being a cynic has it's rewards.

One of them being that one comes to realize that shit happens, has a long history of happening, and will continue to happen.

[libnnc]

19. I find myself repeating this one thought over and over...

"Fuckitall goddamnit. Where's my vodka?"

[ecstatic]

25. Luv the sig pic! nt

[OmahaBlueDog]

23. Y'know, I was happy in 2000

The government took in more than it spent, it actually looked for 5 minutes like there might be peace in the Middle East, and I just kept thinking how well off we were with no cold war and prosperity at home. 8 years later, it's pretty much all gone to Hell.

[ecstatic]

24. More like disgusted and disappointed in fellow citizens nt

[Sebastian Doyle]

26. Well I used to be disgusted

now I try to be amused.......



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJKt-DhII_4

[ColbertWatcher]

28. Tuesday kick. n/t

[Arugula Latte]

29. More bitter? Let's put it this way. I put unripe kumquats to shame.

[davidthegnome]

30. More

More bitter... but also older, perhaps a (very little) bit wiser, and not as dramatic as I was at sixteen, when the first election was stolen. I have a hard time understanding how anyone who knows what has been going on for eight years can avoid bitterness. If you know the secret to this, please share.

As for explaining what it's like... eight years ago I was sixteen years old, generally clueless, occasionally depressed, but most of the time in a fairly good mood. I remember hearing a man say that he wanted to "rebuild the military to make peace". Those words gave me a chill... and I decided to start paying attention to politics. Of course, it was George Bush that said this, during the debates.

Now, at 24, I've survived severe panic disorder and chronic depression. I've lost friends to an insane war that we had no business being in. I've lost a potential marriage due to my inability to find a job - somehow it was remarkably easy when Clinton was President.

I live with my parents, I'm broke, and do not qualify for any sort of insurance. Bitter? Bitter doesn't begin to describe it. While I can't (and don't) blame the government entirely for the way things have turned out, they certainly deserve a good piece of that blame. A good piece of that bitterness, that resentment over so many things is directed towards the government. I strongly believe that they have earned it.

It's not entirely limited to politicians, over the years I've come to dislike and distrust psychiatrists just as much. Then there's Republicans, of course.

That said, I'm more pessimistic (more bitter, I guess) than most people anyway, and would be with or without the last eight years. This just makes me a lot worse.